Compton College and the University of Southern California announced they will run a “Faculty Prep Academy” that is for “students of color.”
An application for the program states that 30 “currently enrolled master’s and doctoral students of color” who attended any community college in California will be selected for the program, which is intended to prepare students to eventually become faculty members.
”We invite talented currently enrolled master’s and doctoral students of color across California who began their postsecondary start at a California Community College before transferring to four-year universities to apply for participation in our Compton College Faculty Prep Academy – an opportunity that prepares scholars to become faculty members within the system. Students pursuing graduate degrees in academic fields that are taught at Compton College will be targeted for this initiative,” the application states.
[Supposedly the schools launched this initiative due to a lack of faculty members “of color,” but that’s not going to pass muster in court. Especially after the SCOTUS decisions on Harvard and North Carolina, academic institutions cannot discriminate on the basis of color even if they’re trying to address a disparity — and it seems awfully strange to argue that USC can’t recruit non-white faculty members any other way. — Ed]
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